ED21B:
Digital Devices for Fieldwork, Data Analysis, and Geospatial Visualization: Innovative Applications to Undergraduate Education and Authentic Undergraduate Research Experiences across Geoscience Disciplines Posters


Session ID#: 8094

Session Description:
Today’s undergraduates were born after the iMac. They have had access to PCs, mobile devices, and social media throughout their teenage years. Digital technology has rewired their brains’ neural networks, changing their learning styles and preferences in ways that can both help and hinder deep understanding. The challenge for educators is to harness the potential of digital devices to promote inquiry, data analysis, and geospatial visualization in the classroom, on line, and in the field, whilst avoiding hindrances and distractions. We will invite a panel of national and international experts to address the intersection of u-Learning, m-Learning, undergraduate geoscience education, and technology-enabled undergraduate research, including enhancement of student success amongst non-traditional demographics and the opening of geoscience career opportunities for persons with disabilities. Key features of the session will be the merging of presenters from colleges of science and colleges of education with administrators from centers for teaching and learning.
Primary Convener:  Declan G De Paor, Old Dominion Univ, Norfolk, VA, United States
Conveners:  Steven J Whitmeyer, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, United States and Callan Bentley, Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, United States
Chairs:  Steven J Whitmeyer, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, United States and Callan Bentley, Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Callan Bentley, Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics
Index Terms:

0810 Post-secondary education [EDUCATION]
0845 Instructional tools [EDUCATION]
1908 Cyberinfrastructure [INFORMATICS]
1994 Visualization and portrayal [INFORMATICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Reaching the Next Generation of College Students via Their Digital Devices. (73179)
Declan G De Paor, Old Dominion Univ, Norfolk, VA, United States, Steven J Whitmeyer, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, United States, Callan Bentley, Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, United States and GEODE
Gigapixel imaging as a resource for geoscience teaching, research, and outreach (81533)
Callan Bentley, Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, United States, Alan David Pitts, U.S. Geological Survey, Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, Reston, United States, Robin C. Rohrback, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, VA, United States and Ms. Marissa Jean Hughes, Northern Virginia Community College Annandale, Geology, Annandale, VA, United States
Fostering learners’ interaction with content: A learner-centered mobile device interface (Invited) (80552)
M'Hammed Abdous, Old Dominion Univ, Norfolk, VA, United States
Harnessing the power of mobile technologies for collaborating, crowdsourcing, and creating (Invited) (63341)
Helen Crompton, Old Dominion Univ, Norfolk, VA, United States
Evolution of Evaluation and Assessment in Diverse Audiences in the Digital Age (Invited) (61478)
Susan C Eriksson, Eriksson Associates, Davis, CA, United States
Big Data, Small Data: Accessing and Manipulating Geoscience Data Ranging From Repositories to Student-Collected Data Sets Using GeoMapApp (Invited) (75123)
Andrew M Goodwillie, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, United States and The IEDA Team
Online Experiential Learning: Effective Applications for Geoscience Education (84638)
Audeliz Matias, SUNY Empire State College, Center for Distance Learning, Saratoga Springs, NY, United States and Susan C Eriksson, Eriksson Associates, Davis, CA, United States
Integration Of Digital Methodologies (Field, Processing, and Presentation) In A Combined Sedimentology/Stratigraphy and Structure Course (85003)
Lawrence L Malinconico Jr, Lafayette College, Geology and Environmental Geosciences, Easton, PA, United States, David Sunderlin, Lafayette College, Geology & Environmental Geosciences, Easton, PA, United States and Chun Wai Liew, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, United States
Using Google Earth to Explore Multiple Data Sets and Plate Tectonic Concepts (82853)
Laurel P Goodell, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
Student Perceptions of the Advantages and Disadvantages of Geologic Note-taking with iPads (76536)
Jacqueline A Dohaney, Ben Kennedy and Darren McClurg Gravley, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

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